Beatriz Valverde Contreras
Biographic Data
| ID | 4606734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatriz Valverde Contreras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatriz Valverde |
| FAMILY NAME | Contreras |
| SIGNATURE | CONTRERAS B V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0668-4277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
I am Just a Walking Letterbox in Which They Deposit Their Complaints
Delegates from neutral countries, who, especially in the case of Spain, were active in the protection of prisoners of war during the First World War, remain a group requiring further analysis. This article will consider the experience of the Spanish delegates, who were particularly important between 1917 and 1919 for the inspection and protection of a wide range of Allied prisoners of war, in their role as intermediaries and brokers, but also as …
Living at the Margins of Repression
At the periphery of Portuguese right-wing authoritarian rule, in the Atlantic archipelago of the Azores and its Central Group, political repression remained part of local life in the period after the Second World War. However, in spite of the Portuguese political police being installed in Terceira (in the Central Group) in 1954, this repression remained porous, and many Azoreans used the loopholes for their own advantage. The everyday life histor…
The Art of Running Away
As a coerced labour force living under repressive conditions, contract workers in São Tomé e Príncipe's cocoa plantations belong to a wider phenomenon of global plantation experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Flight appears as an important element of that experience and this article is an attempt to interpret the strategies of runaways in São Tomé's turbulent Great Depression years after 1930. The work set out here benefitted…
Between Violence, Racism and Reform
The effects of the Great Depression on the important cocoa plantation sector of the archipelago of São Tomé e Príncipe – a Portuguese colonial laboratory for social change in plantation agriculture shifting between coercive practices and attempts at accommodation – were drastic: initially backed by a right-wing authoritarian government, plantation managements lowered workers’ wages and made already repressive conditions of worker exploitation wor…
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Between Violence, Racism and Reform
The effects of the Great Depression on the important cocoa plantation sector of the archipelago of São Tomé e Príncipe – a Portuguese colonial laboratory for social change in plantation agriculture shifting between coercive practices and attempts at accommodation – were drastic: initially backed by a right-wing authoritarian government, plantation managements lowered workers’ wages and made already repressive conditions of worker exploitation wor…
The Art of Running Away
As a coerced labour force living under repressive conditions, contract workers in São Tomé e Príncipe's cocoa plantations belong to a wider phenomenon of global plantation experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Flight appears as an important element of that experience and this article is an attempt to interpret the strategies of runaways in São Tomé's turbulent Great Depression years after 1930. The work set out here benefitted…
Living at the Margins of Repression
At the periphery of Portuguese right-wing authoritarian rule, in the Atlantic archipelago of the Azores and its Central Group, political repression remained part of local life in the period after the Second World War. However, in spite of the Portuguese political police being installed in Terceira (in the Central Group) in 1954, this repression remained porous, and many Azoreans used the loopholes for their own advantage. The everyday life histor…
I am Just a Walking Letterbox in Which They Deposit Their Complaints
Delegates from neutral countries, who, especially in the case of Spain, were active in the protection of prisoners of war during the First World War, remain a group requiring further analysis. This article will consider the experience of the Spanish delegates, who were particularly important between 1917 and 1919 for the inspection and protection of a wide range of Allied prisoners of war, in their role as intermediaries and brokers, but also as …
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works)